Donald Trump returned from his tour of the Middle East Friday with some investment pledges secured in Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... but D.L. Hughley is less than impressed with the transactional deals.
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00:00Of course we have to forge new alliances because he shattered the old ones.
00:06Mexico, Canada, even Israel's talking about they don't have to listen to America.
00:11They're not going to take their marchers from America.
00:13France, the European, Russia's not listening to him.
00:16So, of course, we need to forge new alliances because he's really decimated the old ones.
00:21China, he's elevated.
00:23So he might have had, this trip might have, you know, brokered new allies.
00:27But I think the interesting thing is he seemed, the Bush doctrine was one thing.
00:33But Trump's doctrine, whoever built me a hotel, give me a jet, I'm going to listen to.
00:36We have never done this where we've said, look, we're not going to start judging other countries.
00:42And we have screwed things up so much in Iraq and Vietnam where we've intermeddled and tried to change people.
00:50And it has been awful what we've done.
00:52So I got to say, D.L., I, the more I think about it, the more of a fan I'm of the doctrine.
01:00Not necessarily Trump is the messenger, but this doctrine.
01:03He's the wrong messenger.
01:05Trump is going to get whatever Trump gets.
01:07When he took, when he took his trip, did he take foreign policy experts?
01:10No, he took, he took, you know, all the bros from, from the tech sector.
01:15Listen, the policy may not be bad, but Trump will always look out for Trump first.
01:20That's going to always happen.
01:21He's going to always enrich himself first.
01:22And whatever happens as a byproduct of that for America, that's OK, too.
01:26Look at the allies we once had that we don't anymore.
01:29So I don't know how substantive this new doctrine is when somebody's such a flawed human being,
01:34they're going to take off, they're going to cut off the top and whatever America gets, it gets.
01:38He's the wrong person to do anything in terms of foreign policy, especially when there's something in it for him.
01:44You can't just say, I will never agree with something somebody does because I dislike them.
01:50I mean, at a point, he might fall into the right answer.
01:53And, you know, even with the tariffs, it was imbalanced and everybody kind of acknowledges it.
01:59So I don't know, maybe it's going to reset better for us.
02:02Maybe it's going to reset better for us.
02:04That's like taking a taking, wearing tight shoes so you feel good when you take them off.
02:09The Terrence was a juvenile approach.
02:11No one thinks that he had.
02:13Obviously, there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
02:15His rudimentary understanding of tariffs and economic policy got us here now.
02:21I think that people are trying to look for the it's like it's like honestly, no offense.
02:25It's like picking the corn out of a pile of shit.
02:27That's what you're doing right now.
02:28You're saying, look at all this stuff happening.
02:30That's exactly what you're doing right now.
02:32You're like, oh, he is naming the thing that he has done that doesn't make the United States look transactional and up for sale.
02:41He's turned the White House into the Franklin Mint.
02:43It's a little more than a gift shop right now.
02:45He says America first.
02:46How about that?
02:47How about it being America first instead of whatever pennies fall from my hand you can have?
02:53It looks transactional.
02:54It is transactional.
02:55Everybody gets it.
02:56And everybody knows the United States of America is up for sale because he is the carnival barker.
03:01That's it.
03:02That's it.